Another Glimmer of Hope, This Time From the European Union.

Just days after learning that coal consumption seems to be declining in China, the European Union has announced agreement on emissions reductions that will put Harperland to ever more shame.

The agreement calls for emissions cuts of 40% from 1990 levels by 2030 but also targets increases of 27% in both renewable energy and energy efficiency by that same date.

It's good news if it actually happens. The Poles, for example, love their coal. While it has to be taken as good news, nobody can tell if it'll be even remotely good enough. Yet that doesn't really matter. The EU is taking the lead and that challenges every other nation to respond in kind. Canada won't, we know that. Ours is a parliament packed with petro-pols on both sides of the aisle. It will take a collapse of world oil prices and divestment of high-carbon fossil fuel investments before Canada ever does the right thing.